I got a gorgon!

Ed, thanks for that archived link and for your multitude of other helpful posts. You are such an asset to CoinTalk!

 

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I think I got a fake...though I have seen another nice coin with the unusual hair/serpent configuration. Any comments?

 

Here-here! I really enjoy your posts @Ed Snible !

 

The style is wrong. It resembles these replicas, whose style is also wrong: http://rg.ancients.info/medusa/replicas.html

 

Another Gorgo

In the course of time her ugliness has softened and about 400 BC in the Medusa Rondanini (Munich, Glyptothek) a distinctly beautiful type is reached, however of a cold, soulless beauty. The hellenism then give her the painful features of melancholia and does no longer show the tantalizing, but the tantalized being. (Der Kleine Pauly)

The next coin (from my collection) shows a Medusa, that is no more the grimacing, horror propagating monster as we are used to see it on the coins from Parion. Here the transition from the original grimacing, terror spreading monster into the melancholic, suffering being of the late Hellenistic time is almost finished.


Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st century BC
AE 22, 6.21g, 0°
obv. Head of Gorgo, with snakes and wingsm frontal in dotted circle
in r. field c/m: monogram in circular incus (not in Howgego)
rev. ΠA - PI - ANΩN
Eagle with open wings stg.r., before monogram, all in laurel wreath
ref. BMC Mysia, p. 100, 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG France 1404
about VF/F, green patina with earthen Highlights

Best regards

 

I actually saw these....part of the reason, I assumed mine was fake. But I was impressed/fooled by the relatively unusual hair and choice to use the cone like ear protrusions....such as on the coin attached. I’m green, so if you feel like leaving a few pointers I’d appreciate. Thank you.

 

Should I post this inquiry on its own thread?

 

As the OP I don’t mind the thread helping you, but you would probably get more replies by starting a thread with the question as the subject

 

I’ll do so. Thank you.

 

Thanks, I might also.

 

I have shown this a few times.

I captured this cuz of the Flying Pig, but the Gorgon is a cool reverse! BONUS!


Ionia Klazomenai 480-400 BC AR Drachm Pentobol 3.5g 13mm Forepart winged boar r gorgoneion incuse sq Cf SNG Copenhagen 12 Rare